I cant remotely explain whats going on in the12 Monkeys fourth season premiere.
There are swooping gunkata battle scenes, a sacrifice, a betrayal, unexpected twists of time and space.
Then the first half-hour ends, andthensomeone heists a museum.
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12 Monkeysbegan in 2015.
It looks like someone tooktheTerminatorfranchises looping canon, then quadrupled it.
I couldnt always keep up.
I fell in and out on12 Monkeys.
The show never had anything like ratings, but Syfy gamely tried to pitch it as a binge-friendly romp.
The web connection aired all 10 episodes of season 3 in one weekend last year.
Season 4 gets off and running.
In 2018, Jennifer (Emily Hampshire) is stealing something in pandemic-plagued Prague.
Say that five times fast.
For a show steeped in apocalyptic dread and regret,12 Monkeyshas a surprisingly light sense of humor.
It helps that the cast is so rock solid.
12 Monkeysmoves so quickly, sometimes beyond sense.
One key character flips good-evil sides on a dime.
Inevitably, theres two of everybody.
Youd be well served to binge this show from start to finish.
And the first few episodes of this final season actually feel like savvily timed counter-programming.
12 Monkeyslooks cheaper than two of those series; nothing looks cheaper thanKrypton.
But its thrills are pulpier, more urgent.
Although in the fourth episode, the12 Monkeysgangdoestake a trip to the Old West.
And inside a frontier towns tavern, theres a piano man playing unexpected music on the old-time piano.
Nope: Hes playingThe Munsters!
And a couple scenes later, hes on toKnight Rider.
